Posts by Hans 1

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I think everyone when looking at [B]rexit fails to see the simple truth that it's going to hit them as well as us

Article:

However, EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier has indicated that the UK's suggestions might not be possible, saying that a data adequacy decision "can only be taken once we are able to assess the new UK legal framework".

Michel does not seem too worked-up about the effects of a non-deal, do you not think ? He is playing time, they have plenty, we have but little left ... in the meantime, banks and businesses are moving to EU-land, all thanks to that bastard, but can we blame him ? He is defending his courtyard ...

Re: Hotmail

Be distracted by its slick features, while in the background it gets down to the brutal business of re-identifying your online ID, tracking your every activity, and building a picture of your every internet wandering, down to the last click.

What makes you think Microsoft and Yahoo are/were not doing just that as well ? I do not trust Google, nor Yahoo, or Microsoft, ever ...

BTW, hotmail users could not count to 5! Netscape gave you 5Mb and allowed you to send 3Mb emails ...

@el reg

Windows 95 & 98 allowed you to set a password, yay!, but you could just get through the logon screen by hitting Esc <---- all your data is belong to me!

Re: No mention of Crossover Office?

Or PoL

Re: Take the money

Being made redundant is unfortunate, especially if you're an older person. Mr Langley has been working for IBM since 1993 so hopefully he has built up a retirement pot and potentially a redundancy package. No details are mentioned in the original article, nor were any conditions attached to such a package. Given he's already proceeded with legal action I imagine the package, whatever it was is off the table.

WTF ? He either resigned or retired, according to IBM systems.

From the article:

Langley was unable to get a role elsewhere within IBM, and its HR system marked him as having "resigned," it is claimed. In early July, days after he left the business, Langley got a letter congratulating him on his "retirement."

If IBM cannot make up its mind, I dunno what can. Actually, I think the official plan was "anything but a redundancy", because of the expensive package attached to such a move ... and middle manglement went "either retirement or resignation" and since they failed to communicate, different systems at IBM had different reasons for his departure ;-)

Just remember to cancel the credit card you used for the rental and get another one with a different number and voila: free autostrada tolls. Comes in handy for speeding tickets too. Rental car companies will try to charge the card they have on file but it's no longer valid.

Now I know why we cannot have nice things ... This behavior will just cause rental companies to up their prices for foreigners, all because of total cunts like you!

I do hope they use that photocopy of your passport/license they took as you picked up the car and charge you 5 or 10 fold.

Re: Fgs

"could" being the word here.

If the UK is in the customs union OR UK strikes a deal with the EU (which the EU DOES NOT WANT, WHY WOULD THEY ????) You are right ... guess what ? UK does not want customs union and the EU does not want a deal - why ? because EU lose if they enter a deal and UK are a bunch of arrogant idiots who think all their is due. Crikey, I thought bone was thick ....

In the haste forgot to adapt the boilerplate reply to the twat*. Seem to be very busy ... coincidence ?

*twat (neologism) twatter user

Re: Specs look unrealistic

PS4 - $299

XBox One- $199

NOT LAUNCH PRICES and here we are talking VOLUMES Atari cannot dream of attaining, and suppliers will NEVER buy into that if Atari were to try.

Please, please, please, when you don't know anything about hardware sales please refrain.

For a $250 product, Atari have like $80 for components, tops, really, tops!

No sales channel. No trust from suppliers or vendors.

All Atari have is a brand name that should have raked in billions over the years but was mismanaged.

Anything born after 1990 never knew Atari.

Break up those $2 000 000 between board members and close offices already.

Re: Barnier bombastic bullshit

He does not display the desire to get something that is best for everyone

Actually, he has free reign, why would he not try to get the best for the EU ? I think the EU is tired of always bending over for the UK, worse, the more he hurts the UK, the more he helps the EU. Frankfurt and Paris are going bonkers over the many City banks moving ... all thanks to UK's loss of the passporting rights ... we are talking actual GDP points for Germany and France, here ...

Grexit will not happen anytime soon, the Greek economy is growing, now.

Spexit will not happen anytime soon, because Spain is very eager to get hold of new Airbus contracts, thanks to Brexit.

Frexit is dead, Marine Le Pen showed her complete and utter political ignorance during the last presidential debate.

Re: Well, what do you expect...

Stop clogging the intertubes with football FFS.

Who cares which team denies England the world cup ?

When is the last time England played Frauenspiel properly ?

Paris cause she is a Frau ...

Re: Microsoft

I wrote a PowerShell script the other day to download a bunch of stuff ... the script worked fine on Windows 10, not so well on Windows 7, because I was doing this:

[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12

A Windows 7 box I had no control over did not like this, I was told it had the latest patches, I cannot tell if it is a limitation in Windows 7 and do not really care, if it is ... I was just trying to help a few coworkers stuck on SlurpOS.

Sadly, the website where I was downloading stuff, FLOSS stuff, was correctly configured TO MANDATE TLS 1.2.

You have secure protocols, when you wish to communicate with third parties in a secure manner, well, guess what ? It makes no sense NOT to use the safest ... if you don't agree, well, I guess you are whatever you would call me.

Corporate fallacy, legacy business critical (<--- THAT is nonsense, if it were business critical, you would get your act together), whatever your excuse, as I wrote back when IBM attempted to disable TLS 1.0 (yeah, TLS 1.0!!!) in its cloud and got flack from a bunch of n00bs - size does not matter in this one, you can be a multi-billion $ company with hundreds of thousands of employees, does not matter:

If you do not take security seriously, insecurity will take care of your business, just not the way you would expect and you will end up making headlines ...

Re: Separating kids from parents ? Us Brits can shut up, oh, so can the French!

The UK policy seems slightly different, in that we will attempt to keep at least one parent and children together.

In theory, maybe, not in practice ... or maybe the three people (different couples, from different backgrounds) who mentioned this on Radio 4 were dishonest ?

The first lady on Radio 4 clearly stated that she was separated from her kids, had to call friends in the US to pickup the kids from the airport which was hundreds of miles away from the friend's house and take care of them while they tried to sort out the mess ... no, she did not think it would be a problem, nobody in his/her right mind would think there would be a problem moving back to the UK with your kids, if you are a Brit.

Besides:

That seems to lead to us deporting children who, in themselves, are UK citizens.

Have you had a look at the clustfsck it is to get passports for your kids, when only one of the two parents is British, and kid was born overseas ?

Akin to:

If the child was born on or after the 11 March 2001 and before the 18 October 2003, the mother is British, and her step-uncle's best mate's right door neighbour was a bank manager between 12 March 1974 and 15 June 1975, the child is entitled to British nationality.

You have quite a few of those for British mums ... if only the father was British, then it is much simpler, in short, born on or after 29 February 2004 or something stupid, of course not entitled, what did you expect, equality ?

So, then you have kids of various ages where only one is entitled, how fair is that ?

Why so complex ?

What difference does it make where a child is born ?

What difference does it make when a child is born ?

What difference does the sex of the British parent make ?

What difference does the job of the step-uncle's best mate's right door neighbour make ?

What next, phase of the moon ?

I think that if one of the parents has nationality x, kids should be entitled to the same - simple, no dicking around, saves a lot of paper and hassle. Worse case scenario, they have to give up the nationality they hold at the time of request, fine ... crikey.

How come this is not working, must be the compiler's or interpreter's fault ...

Running anything in production without a proper testing in test environment is a big no, no, no.

Does running something again when you get something unexpected seem like a bad idea?

Or is this just me?

It is a good idea, PROVIDED:

1. You are in dev or test environment

2. You have debug statements in your code and forgot to enable them on the first run or simply want to ensure one can safely run the program multiple times. There are certainly other cases as well ...

Re: Speaking of "matey" error messages

Actually, I think Windows has dissociative identity disorder with "Universal Windows Platform" and "Desktop" apps, so it logically refers to itself as we.

Re: Decades of Code-Review Opportunity

why can't Microsoft get better at finding these things when they have all the source code?

Remember when some Windows 2000 source code got leaked ? It was a complete unintelligible clusterfuck. They cannot start from scratch as they need backward compatibility, whole parts of the OS have not been touched in decades. Windows XP apparently had 40 million lines of code without third-party drivers! I assume Windows 10 has an order of magnitude more. And, given the skill of Microsoft developers one can witness in the open source code MS releases, thinking about that rm /bin/sh idiocy, I doubt the code is any good ... it works, sort of ... but that is about it.

How hard can it be to design an update mechanism ? Why does Windows update take ages to find what needs updating, why does it install updates and ask you to reboot, then finishes updating on shutdown and AGAIN on startup, then reboots again ? We will never know because they are too ashamed of themselves to show us their code ...